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The American Indian/ Alaska Native Clinical and Translational Research Program is a joint partnership funded in cooperation with National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore the health disparities in Native communities in Alaska and Montana.
Preliminary federal data show the U.S. suicide rate dipped in 2024 to about 13.7 deaths per 100,000 (roughly 48,800 deaths), reversing a short rebound that had pushed rates above 14 per 100,000 from 2...
Black Americans experience much higher homicide victimization rates than White Americans in recent U.S. data: for 2023 CDC-based counts and rates cited by the Violence Policy Center, Black homicide vi...
National surveys and official reports show a mixed picture for 2024: Bureau of Justice Statistics’ NCVS counted about 6.08 million violent incidents in 2024 and records victimizations across racial gr...
Black Americans face substantially higher per-capita rates of lethal force by U.S. police than White Americans across multiple analyses, with contemporary counts indicating roughly greater likelihood ...
Recent, published analyses indicate , with particularly high reported victimization among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) adolescents and consistently elevated lifetime rates for multiraci...
Available reporting shows mixed and provisional findings for 2024–2025: national age‑adjusted suicide rates were broadly flat from 2022–2023 (about 14.1–14.2 per 100,000) with roughly 49,000 deaths in...
The data provided show that , but Black and Hispanic people are represented at higher rates relative to their population shares in many measures, revealing in program participation. The available anal...
The claim "1 in 100 Black men murder" is not supported by the sources provided; available reporting shows homicide victimization and offender rates for Black men are substantially higher than for othe...
Yes: multiple recent data sources show Black Americans — particularly Black males aged 15–44 — experience much higher homicide victimization rates and are overrepresented among homicide offenders rela...
The claim that “White people receive more food than any other group” is . Federal data show non-Hispanic white people are the largest single racial group by count among SNAP participants, but Black, H...
Age- and gender-standardized measures consistently show racial and ethnic minorities—especially Black Americans and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people—bear a heavier burden of violent victim...
Cost‑sharing reductions (CSRs) remain available for 2026 to people who buy a Silver Marketplace plan and meet income and eligibility rules: broadly, individuals and families with household incomes up ...
MAGI for Medicaid eligibility is a standardized, tax-based income measure that starts with federal Adjusted Gross Income and adds specific tax-exempt items (tax‑exempt interest, non‑taxable Social Sec...
There is a substantial body of empirical work comparing victimization-based (self-report or population surveys) and case-based (reports, substantiations, convictions) measures of child sexual abuse (C...
The Affordable Care Act substantially in health‑insurance coverage after its major provisions took effect in 2014, with larger absolute gains for Black and Hispanic adults than for White adults. Gains...
SNAP’s racial and ethnic composition has shifted since 2000 toward greater reliance among , with Black households notably overrepresented relative to their population share; pandemic-era enrollments s...